[Editor’s Note: A Celebration of Life for the late coach Rick Hudson, who died at 61, will be held at 6:30 on Saturday evening at the Little League Field inside of Bill Botts Field. The celebration will continue in the Garden Room at the Vets Auditiorium.]
As an admiring friend and colleague of the youth coach Rick Hudson, who died over the weekend, the activist John Cohn is serving up an appealing idea:
Naming a Culver City park or ball field to honor the community-wide works of Mr. Hudson.
Apart from the conviction that such a lasting honor is inarguably merited, the timing is superb.
In the recent era, only one such tribute is recalled – the naming of Richard Alexander Park in Culver West, saluting the circa 1970s City Councilman.
Mr. Hudson coached hundreds of boys and girls in softball, baseball and football – kids from involved families who will appreciate the meaning of Rick Hudson’s name. “I knew him.”
It is not as if Mr. Hudson’s diverse communal contributions were limited to student athletics.
Through the Exchange Club, of which Mr. Cohn also is a prominent member, Mr. Hudson regularly was visible through their favorite promotions, such as the Car Show every May on the eve of Mother’s Day and the Fourth of July fireworks display.
You would have seen Mr. Hudson, too, at next week’s Fiesta La Ballona renewal.
Rick Hudson Park?
Or Rick Hudson Field?
Are you listening, City Council?
